Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.

I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.